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Cloud-based Payroll Software

Payroll software that does the heavy lifting for you; with everything you need to manage your payroll in-house with accuracy, efficiency, compliance, and control. 

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Payroll software built to manage complexity

No matter how complex your payroll might be, you’ll find every single feature and functionality you need in Cintra.  

We’ve been in the business for over 40 years; with a large team of in-house engineers and product managers driving our cloud-based payroll software and pushing new and exciting updates almost every day, you can guarantee you’ll always have the tools you need to keep your payroll simple, compliant, and accurate. 

Accurate and reliable

Cintra makes it easy to spot mistakes, with an average user accuracy rate of 99.99%. You can count on our features to keep you on the right track and keep your paydays accurate, every single time.

Deep functionality

We bring one of the most advanced UK payroll software solutions to the market that offers you the deepest depth of features you can get from a single platform; it’s truly best of the best.

Holistic support

We prioritise customer experience, so we’re only ever a phone call away. Our support team, made up of real payrollers, answer 90% of calls first time; and return 100% within 2 hours.

Advanced security

We invest £500,000 in cybersecurity every single year, so we’re ahead of the curve; bringing you one of the most secure software solutions available.

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User-friendly, cloud-based payroll with Cintra

Find out more about using Cintra Pay to run your payroll, entirely cloud-based—and the easy-to-use functionality you won’t find elsewhere. 

Automate calculations and deductions

Every payroll calculation, big or small, is automated in your payroll software. Whether it’s wages, occupational pay schemes, tax, or pensions, you can recalculate your payroll at the click of a button. That’s no more second guessing and manual number-crunching, so you can run 99.99% accurate payroll, every time.

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Simplify retrospective changes

Your cloud-based payroll software automatically recalculates payroll based on the dates you enter, making back-dated pay simple and accurate. Whether you’re correcting missed hours or applying retroactive changes, every adjustment is precisely factored in. No errors, no stress—just fault-free calculations and accurate paydays.

Access powerful reporting

From all your standard, ready-made reports to journals and gender pay gap, we’re proud to bring some of the most extensive reporting capabilities on the market. Generate compliant and accurate reports click of a button, including:

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Above and beyond the best in payroll security

We prioritise the security of your data; that’s why we’ve poured millions into our platform security to protect your payroll at all times. You’ll have total peace of mind that we’re doing everything in our power to keep your data safe and secure, while maintaining total compliance. 

Cloud payroll software that’s easy, secure, and reliable

Easy to use, but extremely advanced. You can trust in our payroll expertise; gathered over 40 years of delivering payroll solutions to organisations of all shapes and sizes, we know the complexities of payroll inside and out. That’s why we’ve built HMRC-recognised, software that delivers everything you need with total control and ease.

Workflow management

Automate your payroll process and free up your time with Cintra’s smart workflow functionality.

Built for complexity

No matter what types of roles, contracts, pay grades, pensions, or anything else; Cintra can manage your complex set up.

Customisable and tailored

During your implementation, we’ll build the system in a way that works exactly how your payroll needs it to.

Scalable

Our software can grow and change with you, no matter your needs; with freedom to switch to our outsourced service if you need extra support.

Cloud-based

With cloud-based payroll, your users can access from anywhere, on any device—adding extra accessibility to your payroll cycle.

Fully integrated

Whether you’re using CintraHR or you’re plugging into your own HR and finance, Cintra is fully integrated with your back-office systems.

As a payroll professional with over twenty years’ in the industry, I feel that Cintra offers a level of support that you will not find from other providers. The team are quick to respond to any queries and offer a variety of methods to troubleshoot, identify and resolve issues swiftly and professionally. The product itself is very user-friendly too and is simple to navigate around.

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Everything you need for total payroll compliance

We’re HMRC-recognised, and our in-house engineers build legislation updates and rate changes directly into your payroll software as soon as they’re announced. You have everything you need, including: 

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Payroll software that improves employee experience

Our brand-new employee self-service portal is one of the newest and most modern apps available; synced directly with your payroll, your teams can access full functionality from their phones: 

FAQs

Yes! We support both Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), allowing users to securely access the system with their usual login details while adding an extra layer of security.

All data is securely hosted in the UK using Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS provides strong security and meets compliance standards to keep your payroll data safe. Our cloud-based payroll software stores everything in one place so businesses don’t have to worry about managing servers.

Yes! Cintra offers both inbound and outbound integrations. This means you can pull in data from systems like HR or time & attendance, and also send payroll data to other systems—including pushing payslips into your existing HR software.

Yes! Cintra allows you to set up as many occupational parental schemes as needed. The system automatically calculates maternity and parental leave payments and generates a detailed schedule for both your records and your employees’ records.

Yes. Cintra lets you produce gender pay gap reports at any time, giving you a clear view of hourly rate gaps, bonus gaps, and other pay comparisons so you can access these reports whenever you need them.

Cintra makes it easy to track pay changes. You can set thresholds and compare the current pay period with the previous one, see differences in pay and deductions, and review any unexpected changes.

Yes. When you run payroll, Cintra’s payroll software can create a report showing if anyone has fallen below minimum wage. It also highlights things like deductions that may have caused this, helping you spot and fix any issues and stay on top of wage rules.

Absolutely. Cintra can create finance journals in just a few clicks. You can adjust them to match your accounting system and then export them for use in your financial software, meaning our cloud-based payroll software makes it simple to manage payroll-related accounting tasks.

We’re fully compliant with automatic enrolment rules. The system keeps track of your postponement periods and default pension schemes and automatically checks whether employees should be enrolled. If they qualify, the system puts them into the scheme while also automatically creating enrolment letters that you can send to employees.

Yes, but with Cintra, you usually don’t need to. Our corrections features let you fix mistakes without having to restore backups or roll back the entire pay period. We make it as easy as possible to correct errors without redoing everything!

Yes. Cintra allows you to set up multiple occupational schemes and calculates different sickness entitlements based on length of service. The system also tracks rolling years so you can make sure everything is in line with your scheme rules.

Yes! You can choose when to publish payslips and set them to go out in advance, so employees can check them before payday. This is a useful option in our software for businesses that want to give employees early access to their pay details.

Yes. Cintra is a date-driven system, meaning every payroll change has a start and end date. If a change should have taken effect in a previous pay period, the system works out how much backpay the employee is owed.

Cintra connects to the Government Gateway, so tax codes, student loans, and other updates are automatically downloaded and applied. This keeps payroll data up to date. Our payroll software handles these updates for you, so you don’t have to do them manually.

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Take a look at our payroll software in action! We’ll talk about your needs, show you the platform, and walk you through how we’ll tailor your solutions to your needs. 

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